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Since my academic career was launched and nurtured in Uganda, and Uganda is the source of the Nile, I regard my professional life as a child of the Nile. I have had a special relationship with Uganda. What do I owe the country? I owe Uganda my loyalty and creative engagement. But I also owe Ugandans eternal frankness. I was after all a citizen as well as a scholar. I learnt things in Uganda which ...
Recently, I travelled from Kabale to Kisoro. This is a road that is getting tarmac for the first time in human history. What amused me were the numerous road bends, climbing and descending of hills and mountains. Some of the bends are quite blind and dangerous- capable of causing accidents.
Last week "Objection!" submitted that Uganda ought to be wary of increased Chinese and Arabian investments in the region if we are interested in moving towards democracy, good governance, impeccable observance of human rights and overall freedoms. The reason is simple and straightforward: if you are looking for any of the four issues above, China and the Arab world are precisely the places you ...
Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesige's motion in Parliament earlier this week seeking to create 21 new districts is most disheartening. It implies that by the end of 2010, this country will have a whooping 101 districts, up from 33 in 1986. For the record we now have 80 unwarranted districts. The creation of districts for political expediency in the face of spiralling public expenditure is ...
Ugandans, whose national football team, the Cranes, failed to qualify for the 2010 Fifa World Cup, are consoling themselves with the prestigious Fifa World Cup trophy as it arrives in Kampala enroute to South Africa.
Because death is the guaranteed physical end for each one of us, it is not something we obsess about in any noticeable way, certainly not collectively. The last few weeks have, however, been somewhat different. Sketchy evidence shows many people are talking death and dying. For good reason. First, presidential advisor Fr. Albert Byaruhanga died in a car accident on the Fort Portal-Kampala highway ...
Nate Silver, renowned for his dead-on forecasting of the 2008 US elections, released a new football ranking formula with broadcaster ESPN.
If there is a place where utl Kobs can arrest their slump and turn the corner, it's got to be the Dam waters grounds in Jinja. The ground located on the banks of the source of River Nile is the scene of Kobs' last major success achieved during last year's 7s circuit.
For many an ardent soccer fan, this day means quite a lot. The piece of gold that they have always seen on television being caressed by soccer stars is finally coming 'home'.
Like him or hate him, Didier Drogba is currently the best value for money player in the world. And I am not writing this as a Chelsea fan or an African. That his playing style dictates he may never win the annual Fifa World Player of the Year award is irrelevant. No player - neither Cristiano Ronaldo, nor Lionel Messi, nor Frank Ribery, nor Ricardo Kaka is as good a shift as Drogba .
Cape Town and the World Cup draw await, but there are those who still haven't earned the right to join the party. The tragic death of German goalkeeper Robert Enke, who had been a sure bet to be in South Africa next June, has yet again brought forth the bitter irony that football shouldn't be a matter of life and death, a quite sobering perspective for me and you.
DEATH news has dominated the media in the past two weeks. From the Vice-President's son and Major Gen. Kazini, to ordinary people dying in road accidents in Mabira, Mubende and on Lake Victoria.
There was pandemonium in a Kampala-bound taxi when an unidentified man vanished with the transport fare of two ladies recently.
GULU-A primary school deputy head teacher was on Tuesday night speared when he was found stealing maize cobs from a garden. Vincent Azuma of Angaba Primary School, was speared in the waist at Tochi in Ongako sub-county, when he tried to run away from the garden.
A local council court in Bufuula village, Budondo subcounty was on Monday stunned when a boy confessed that he placed a dead snake in the doorway of his grandfather's house as a punishment.
Drama unfolded in Kasubi, a Kampala suburb, after a market vendor was nabbed with a stolen fish recently. The woman, only identified as mama Ismail, was accused of stealing fish from Jackline, another vendor.
RESIDENTS of Kasana village in Busaana sub-county, were surprised after their LC 1 secretary, Apollo Sokini, was caught with a pig that he allegedly stole from Tebe Nakiboneka's home.
THE wait is finally over!After traversing 36 destinations on its 70-day tour across Africa, the highly-coveted World Cup trophy will arrive at 7pm today at Entebbe Airport to a fascinating reception.
OLD Kampala Police has summoned former FUFA presidential hopeful Godfrey Kwizera over the soccer governing body's missing vehicle.
DOMINANT MTN Heathens head to Jinja hoping to register routine success in the Broadband Sevens Circuit at Jinja Rugby Club today.Heathens who lead the 2009 circuit with 40 points, 16 clear of Uganda telecom Kobs, G4S Pirates and Hima Impis who are all tied in second position.
UGANDA Sports Press Association (USPA) will join other groups on the continent to celebrate Africa Statistics Day that annually falls on November 18.
Welcome to Uganda, country of ghosts. If you are entering from the east, you will pass through the ghost towns of Tororo and Jinja, once prosperous centres of economic activity until the ghosts moved in.
The Bank of Uganda is in the spotlight following the revelation of massive fraud rackets under its watch by multiple investigations into the banking sector.
AIG Uganda, a subsidiary of American insurance giant AIG has rebranded itself to Chartis, and adopted a more efficient and leaner operation.
When James Kazini commanded Ugandan troops, during that country's second successive military expedition in neighbouring Congo Democratic Republic, back in 1999, his rank was that of brigadier-general.
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